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Saturday, February 2, 2008

I Walk in Your Footprints ~ Response to Option 4 ~ Can you picture that? ~ Cafe Writing

February Project: In the Northern Hemisphere, February is the month of hearts and flowers, groundhogs, candles, and hope for the coming spring. In other parts of the world, of course, it comes with different meanings and traditions. Rather than making the theme for this month specific to Valentine’s Day, then, it will be a celebration of love, with a bit of hope for spring tossed into the mix.
Comment: In the Southern Hemisphere, February is the month of hearts and flowers, dancing dolphins in fading summer waters, candles, and a memory of summer play. It is a time to celebrate the bond of love that asks no questions and needs no answers. It simply is.
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Option Four: Can You Picture That?
Use the following photo to inspire an entry in any form - fiction, essay, poetry. Please copy the photo to your own server if you want to include it in your post.
If you respond to this prompt, please copy the image to your own server, and credit the photographer Beverly Lussier.

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I WALK IN YOUR FOOTPRINTS
I feel what you know
And you know what I feel
We love from the depths
Of our hearts
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I see with your eyes

You see with mine

We sing in the beauty

Of our minds

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I walk in your footprints

You walk in mine

We are happy in the souls

Of our shoes

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh, I do love this :)

I'm going to read it as a bedtime poem for my own true (doggy) love.
(It would work for my human love too ;)

Very nice poetic response to this photo.

Anonymous said...

Lovely. (And Zorro and Miss Cleo agree).

Will be linked shortly.

Ambiguitylotus said...

I love this, especially the line: "We are happy in the souls / Of our shoes", which can be a play on words with "soles / Of our shoes". I don't know if you did that intentionally, but that's what I had in mind at first.

Anyway, your poem matched the photo. Now I really, really miss having a dog!! LOL. Thanks for sharing! :)

rebecca said...

i love the connection and loving bond felt in you poem. quite lovely. thank you....

paisley said...

that was so beautiful,, and so much of what i too see in this photo.....

catryan said...

That was beautiful. I never thought about interpreting it as a seeing eye dog!

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